Monthly Archive for July, 2011

KIA ORA KOUTOU NO TI KOUKA

Published on July 14, 2011 in Ti Kouka - rm 6 - Monica Mercury and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Tena koutou katoa

ART AND ENTERPRISE:

Wow! Term two has absolutely whizzed by because of all the exciting things that we have had to do. “Art and Enterprise has been our topic and it has been a real blast working with the divine and talented Ms. Caroline McGlinchy. The senior classes focused on photography for our art project and we hope you enjoyed the culmination of all our genius and hard work on display at the HVS Art Exhibition! Other works of art that the children chose were also on display.

Here are just three of the examples of the stunning photography we took that was on display!

Yeehah!!!

Look Here

Seed Head

TI KOUKA RECYCLING:

We have also been modifying our class Environmental Responsibility because of the way the WCC will collect it from schools and early childhood centres. There is a one-month trial going on which commenced on June 14 and will finish on July 15.

The WCC are using some new green recycling bags and they are asking schools to use these to collect paper, plastic and cans. They will collate how much recycling has been collected to see if the amounts justify collection on a regular basis.

We will keep you posted on the outcome.

JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

The school holidays are coming up and we hope that you have a fantastic break with your children, keep safe and warm and we look forward to seeing you fresh and ready for a brand new term three! Yippee!

Harakeke Term 2 in Review

Published on July 8, 2011 in Harakeke - rm 5 - Matt Titcombe and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Term 2 2011 in review

What action filled, jam packed term in the realm of Harakeke.

With focus being on the Arts and Enterprise we have been doing lots of related learning.

Instructional writing we have been learning inform people on HOW TOWe were given various instructions on how to make Oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid.

Some were more successful than others, from these we came up with our own features of a successful instruction.

Is it solid or liquid?

Hey guys do think this stuff is radioactive?

With all the learning we have to have some serious fun. The school ‘Futuristic Fluoro Disco’ was heaps of fun. Harakeke came to party and dressed to impress.

Take Me to Your Leader!!!

We celebrated the unveiling of our Rainforest signs with a grand opening of the tracks. We got to guide the school and community around and tell them of all the wonders hidden in the Rainforest.

Come and see the geckos in our wonderful rainforest

We have been focusing on Multiplication, Division, Geometry and Fractions for our Numeracy this term. We participated an experiment with Te Kouka were we played Multiplication and Division games on the computer and Te Kouka played board games and dice games in the class. Our initial results showed that the children who played the educational basic fact games on the computer made a greater improvement.

The Grand finale for the end of term was our Art Expo we focused on photography as our medium of art and learnt about Elements of photography such has filling the frame, the rule of thirds, Micro and Macro, perspectives and many more. Caroline came in and inspired and guided us to some amazing pieces.

We explored the HVS and found our favourite place and took multiple photos. Taking inspirations from David Hockney we created collages of our faces and favourite places.

Colourkeke Harakeke Class piece

101 EYES Harakeke Class Piece

Harakeke chose baking for their enterprise it was an astounding success. There were amazing teamwork and entrepnerial skills shown by our students. “Watch out Stephen Tindall”. It was a sell out night with many happy customers sampling our chocolate delights.